On Saturday, March 09, 2013 01:38:56 Linus Lüssing wrote: > From: Matthias Schiffer <[email protected]> > > In heterogenous networks, setting the number of broadcasts to differing > values on different interfaces can be beneficial. > > E.g., on wireless interfaces with high packet loss a higher number of > broadcasts may be necessary, whereas on low-bandwidth interfaces with > relatively high reliablily (such as VPN links over slow internet lines) > sending only a single packet makes more sense to preserve bandwidth.
In general, I like the idea but the approach isn't the best. Can't we automate these settings instead of adding hundreds of little knobs nobody will understand ? Why not detecting wifi interfaces as such and configure the broadcast value accordingly ? The same goes for ethernet / vpns ? Cheers, Marek
